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Name: Chinese, Mandarin Type: Language Alternate Names: Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin Supergroup; Putonghua; Mandarin; Guanhua; Beifang Fangyan; Northern Chinese; Guoyu; Standard Chinese; Hanyu; Mandarin Section; Chinese,Mandarin; Pei; Northern Chinese Spoken in: Singapore, China, Laos, Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Thailand, United Kingdom, Cambodia, Russia, Indonesia, Mauritius, USA, Mongolia, Malaysia, Viet Nam Number of speakers: 840,000,000 in China (2000 census), increasing. 70% of Chinese language users speak a Mandarin dialect as their mother tongue, including 9,816,805 Hui (2000 census) and 10,682,262 Manchu. 1,182,950,000 Han in China (2005 census). Population total all countries: 845,456,760 (Ethnologue) Code: cmn Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Sino-Tibetan Parent Language: Middle Chinese (ltc) Child Dialect Groups: Beijing Mandarin; Beijing Dialects; Peking (cmn-bei) Beifang Mandarin; Jilu Dialects; Beifang; Jilu Mandarin (cmn-jil) Jiaoliao Mandarin; Jiaoliao Dialects; Jiaoliao (cmn-jia) Zhongyuan Mandarin; Zhongyuan Dialects; Zhongyuan (cmn-zho) Lanyin Mandarin; Lanyin Dialects; Lanyin (cmn-lan) Northeastern Mandarin; Northeastern Mandarin Dialects; North-eastern Mandarin (cmn-nem) Child Dialects: Xinan Guanhua; Southwestern Mandarin Dialects; Southwestern Mandarin; South-western Mandarin; Southwestern; Western (cmn-xin) Jinghuai Guanhua; Jinghuai Dialects; Jiangxia Guanhua; Lower Yangze Mandarin; Jianghuai Mandarin; Southern; Yangtze-Hua; Lower Yangtze (cmn-jin) Ho; Haw; Cin Haw; Yunnanese; Western Mandarin; Hui; Hui-Tze; Hwei; Panghse; Pantha; Panthe; Pathee; Southwestern; Western; Yünnan (cmn-hoo) Xibei Guanhua; Northwestern Mandarin; Northwestern; Chin; North-western Mandarin; Jin (cmn-xib) Taibei Mandarin (cmn-tai) Huabei Guanhua; Northern Mandarin; Huaian; Northern (cmn-hua) Hezhouhoua (cmn-hez)